All Stories

  1. Accelerating the Evolution of Nonhuman Primate Neuroimaging

    Article • Neuron, February 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  2. The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping

    Article • PLoS Biology, April 2019, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  3. The scalar property during isochronous tapping is disrupted by a D2-like agonist in the nonhuman primate

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, March 2019, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  4. The amplitude in periodic neural state trajectories underlies the tempo of rhythmic tapping

    Article • October 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  5. Entrainment and maintenance of an internal metronome in supplementary motor area

    Article • eLife, October 2018, eLife

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  6. Editorial Focus on “Invariant and heritable local cortical organization as revealed by fMRI”

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2018, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  7. Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Sense Isochrony in Rhythm, but Not the Beat: Additional Support for the Gradual Audiomotor Evolution Hypothesis

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, July 2018, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  8. Predictive rhythmic tapping to isochronous and tempo changing metronomes in the nonhuman primate

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, April 2018, Wiley

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  9. The Synaptic Properties of Cells Define the Hallmarks of Interval Timing in a Recurrent Neural Network

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, April 2018, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  10. Neural basis for categorical boundaries in the primate pre-SMA during relative categorization of time intervals

    Article • Nature Communications, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  11. Monkeys share the neurophysiological basis for encoding sound periodicities captured by the frequency-following response with humans

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  12. Probing the timing network: A continuous theta burst stimulation study of temporal categorization

    Article • Neuroscience, July 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  13. Primate beta oscillations and rhythmic behaviors

    Article • Journal of Neural Transmission, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  14. The Computational and Neural Basis of Rhythmic Timing in Medial Premotor Cortex

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2017, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  15. Editorial: Understanding the Role of the Time Dimension in the Brain Information Processing

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  16. Monkeys Share the Human Ability to Internally Maintain a Temporal Rhythm

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, December 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  17. Variability of Neuronal Responses: Types and Functional Significance in Neuroplasticity and Neural Darwinism

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 2016, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  18. Temporal Processing by Intrinsic Neural Network Dynamics

    Article • Timing & Time Perception, November 2016, Brill

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  19. Recording extracellular neural activity in the behaving monkey using a semichronic and high-density electrode system

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2016, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  20. How the motor system both encodes and influences our sense of time

    Article • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, April 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  21.   Oscillations Are Linked to the Initiation of Sensory-Cued Movement Sequences and the Internal Guidance of Regular Tapping in the Monkey

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  22. Sensorimotor neural dynamics during isochronous tapping in the medial premotor cortex of the macaque

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  23. Finding the beat: a neural perspective across humans and non-human primates

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  24. Searching for the origins of musicality across species

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  25. Differences in auditory timing between human and nonhuman primates

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  26. Motor system evolution and the emergence of high cognitive functions

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  27. Dynamic Representation of the Temporal and Sequential Structure of Rhythmic Movements in the Primate Medial Premotor Cortex

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, September 2014, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  28. Cognitive modulation of local and callosal neural interactions in decision making

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, August 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  29. Linking Perception, Cognition, and Action: Psychophysical Observations and Neural Network Modelling

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2014, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  30. Monkeys time their pauses of movement and not their movement-kinematics during a synchronization-continuation rhythmic task

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, May 2014, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  31. Information Processing in the Primate Basal Ganglia during Sensory-Guided and Internally Driven Rhythmic Tapping

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, March 2014, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  32. Introduction to the Neurobiology of Interval Timing

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  33. Are non-human primates capable of rhythmic entrainment? Evidence for the gradual audiomotor evolution hypothesis

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  34. Neurophysiology of Timing in the Hundreds of Milliseconds: Multiple Layers of Neuronal Clocks in the Medial Premotor Areas

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  35. Neural Basis of the Perception and Estimation of Time

    Article • Annual Review of Neuroscience, July 2013, Annual Reviews

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  36. Interval Tuning in the Primate Medial Premotor Cortex as a General Timing Mechanism

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, May 2013, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  37. Trial time warping to discriminate stimulus-related from movement-related neural activity

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience Methods, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  38. Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) Detect Rhythmic Groups in Music, but Not the Beat

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2012, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  39. Functional impact of interneuronal inhibition in the cerebral cortex of behaving animals

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  40. Temporal discrimination learning for treatment of gait dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease: a feasibility study using single subject design

    Article • Journal of Parkinsonism and Restless Leg Syndrome, December 2011, Journal of Parkinsonism and RLS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  41. Measuring time with different neural chronometers during a synchronization-continuation task

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  42. Temporal and Spatial Categorization in Human and Non-Human Primates

    Article • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  43. Top-Down Spatial Categorization Signal from Prefrontal to Posterior Parietal Cortex in the Primate

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  44. What Can Be Inferred from Multiple-task Psychophysical Studies about the Mechanisms for Temporal Processing?

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  45. “Apneas” in Purkinje cell activity: evidence for the bistability of membrane potential in the awake cat cerebellum

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2010, Frontiers

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  46. Subsecond Timing in Primates: Comparison of Interval Production Between Human Subjects and Rhesus Monkeys

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, December 2009, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  47. Learning and generalization of time production in humans: rules of transfer across modalities and interval durations

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  48. Neurophysiology of Interceptive Behavior in the Primate: Encoding and Decoding Target Parameters in the Parietofrontal System

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  49. Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Target Interception

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  50. Functional Architecture of Directional Tuning in the Primate Motor Cortex During 3D Reaching

    Article • December 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  51. Dynamic Sculpting of Directional Tuning in the Primate Motor Cortex during Three-Dimensional Reaching

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, September 2008, Society for Neuroscience

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  52. The Context of Temporal Processing Is Represented in the Multidimensional Relationships between Timing Tasks

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2008, PLOS

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  53. Do We Have a Common Mechanism for Measuring Time in the Hundreds of Millisecond Range? Evidence From Multiple-Interval Timing Tasks

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, February 2008, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  54. Interval timing and Parkinson’s disease: heterogeneity in temporal performance

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, September 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  55. Mapping of the preferred direction in the motor cortex

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2007, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  56. Reply to Kurtzer and Herter

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, June 2007, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  57. Large-Scale Organization of Preferred Directions in the Motor Cortex. I. Motor Cortical Hyperacuity for Forward Reaching

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, December 2006, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  58. Large-Scale Organization of Preferred Directions in the Motor Cortex. II. Analysis of Local Distributions

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, December 2006, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  59. Investigating Higher Order Cognitive Functions in the Dorsal (magnocellular) Stream of Visual Processing

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  60. Neurophysiology of Perceptual and Motor Aspects of Interception

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, January 2006, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  61. Spatial Reconstruction of Trajectories of an Array of Recording Microelectrodes

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, April 2005, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  62. Decoding of path-guided apparent motion from neural ensembles in posterior parietal cortex

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  63. Comparative and categorical spatial judgments in the monkey: ?high? and ?low?

    Article • Animal Cognition, April 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  64. Neural Responses during Interception of Real and Apparent Circularly Moving Stimuli in Motor Cortex and Area 7a

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, March 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  65. Neural responses in motor cortex and area 7a to real and apparent motion

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, February 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  66. Short-term memory effects on the representation of two-dimensional space in the rhesus monkey

    Article • Animal Cognition, December 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  67. Interception of real and apparent motion targets: psychophysics in humans and monkeys

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, September 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  68. Functional Organization of Parietal Neuronal Responses to Optic-Flow Stimuli

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, August 2003, American Physiological Society

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  69. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, December 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  70. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, October 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  71. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, April 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  72. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  73. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, December 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  74. Neurobiology: Paper alert

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, October 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  75. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, June 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  76. Neurobiology

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, April 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  77. The Effects of Sensory Stimulation on REM Sleep Duration

    Article • SLEEP, March 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  78. Processing of somesthetic stimuli in primate sensory-motor cortex

    Article • January 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  79. Role of primary somatic sensory cortex in the categorization of tactile stimuli: effects of lesions

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, June 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  80. Categorical perception of somesthetic stimuli: psychophysical measurements correlated with neuronal events in primate medial premotor cortex

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, June 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  81. Categorization of somaesthetic stimuli

    Article • Neuroreport, May 1996, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  82. Neuronal activity of primate putamen during categorical perception of somaesthetic stimuli

    Article • Neuroreport, May 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Hugo Merchant

  83. Brain distribution of c-fos expression as a result of prolonged rapid eye movement (REM) sleep period duration

    Article • Brain Research, May 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant, Ph.D. Fabio Garcia

  84. c-fos proto-oncogene change in relation to REM sleep duration

    Article • Brain Research, May 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Hugo Merchant